Snake circumvents constraints on prey size: Instead of swallowing a victim whole, crab-eating snakes tear off bite-sized pieces

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6894, 2002, Pages 143-

  Jayne, Bruce C ^a   Voris, Harold K ^b   Ng, Peter K L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS;

PREY;

BIODIVERSITY;

PREY SIZE; SNAKE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CRUSTACEA; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; SWALLOWING;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; COLUBRIDAE; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; JAW; MOLTING; MOUTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); SERPENTES;

EID: 85006900498     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/418143a     Document Type: Letter

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